B. Gratz Brown
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Benjamin Gratz Brown was an American politician. He was a U.S. Senator, the 20th Governor of Missouri, and the Liberal Republican and Democratic Party vice presidential candidate in the presidential election of 1872.
Greeley/Brown campaign poster
Speech of the Hon. B. Gratz Brown, of St. Louis, on the subject of gradual emancipation in Missouri - delivered in the House of Representatives (Missouri) Feb 12, 1857
Francis Preston Blair Jr.
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Francis Preston Blair Jr. was a United States Senator, a United States Congressman and a Union Major General during the Civil War. He represented Missouri in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and was active in preventing the State of Missouri from being absorbed into the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War.
General Blair and his staff
Francis Preston Blair Jr., National Statuary Hall Collection
Bust of Blair by William Couper at Vicksburg National Military Park